Women working to get alleged pimp ‘Jello-O’ released

Four women who say they lived with Germaine “Jell-O” Wallace — a Colorado prostitution suspect who was recently arrested after a cab ride in the Houston area — are coming to his defense.

Wallace was in a cab with four women when he was handcuffed along the Northwest Freeway near FM 1960 on Thursday.

The four tell KHOU-Channel 11 that Wallace isn’t a pimp and has done nothing illegal. They also say they’re not prostitutes, but earn livings as exotic dancers:

“We like our lives,” said Amber Wilson. “We want to maintain our lives. That’s all we were trying to do is make money to maintain the way that we lived before this happened.”

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Before working as dancers in Houston, the women said, they lived the good life with Wallace in a Colorado mansion and would travel with him. Now, the women hope an online petition will help get Wallace released, KHOU says.

“I could see it if he was guilty but he’s an innocent man,” Teresa Weeks, who says she was in the cab when Wallace was arrested, tells KHOU.

Wallace was taken into custody on Thursday afternoon along the Northwest Freeway. He was wanted on a variety of charges from Colorado, including sexual assault, narcotics possession and trafficking in prostitution, officials with the federal task force said.

Wallace had been living in a million-dollar mansion in the Denver area. Investigators told the Chronicle it was all funded by his prostitution ring that was put out of business last year.

Authorities said Wallace left the Denver area after being released on bail. Since then, he has reportedly been in cities hosting major sporting events and business conferences with several women. The women were each expected to produce hundreds of dollars a night for him, authorities told the Chronicle.

Investigators said they believe Wallace has been operating in the Houston area for the past two weeks. The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders and Fugitive Task Force joined the search for him on Wednesday after authorities in Denver learned he was here.

Task force investigators searched through adult clubs in the Houston area until they spotted four women who were with Wallace.

Four women found with Wallace on Thursday were released without charges. Wallace, who is reportedly still jailed in Houston, denied any involvement in prostitution as he was being taken into custody, Deputy U.S. Marshal Cameron Welch told the Chronicle.